Cory Doctorow

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You know, when the early reviews started to come out for Enshitification, there was a kind of common theme that emerged from some of these reviews.

I found this book very exciting and interesting.

It gave me a way to attach a handle to something that had been kind of big and diffuse and frustrating to me that I couldn't make sense of.

And now that I've got this handle on it, I feel like I can do something with it.

And I read all of these suggestions for how we could make policy at the end and what that would do in order to

forestall or roll back in shitification and make a better world.

But there wasn't anything I could do personally in my life as a consumer.

And you know, they're right.

They're right.

I don't think your personal consumption choices really play a role in changing our systemic problems.

Now, by all means, like,

If there's like a business you want to support, go to Third Place Books instead of Amazon in order to get your books because it'll make their lives better and you'll have a bookstore in your community.

But don't kid yourself that it's going to fix the structural problem of Amazon.

The structural problem of Amazon is that regulators allow them to buy all of their competitors

such that they were able to corner markets and then they were able to lock people in.

Am I too quiet?

Is that the issue?